Joystiq seems to think so. I wonder if this could be Mass Effect 3 or maybe a side game in the series. considering how quickly they are turning DA2 around ME3 wouldn't be a surprise, with a fall 2011 or early 2012 release.

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The clues Joystiq has certainly makes it seem like it's something in the Mass Effect universe. My guess would be a Mass Effect FPS set during the First Contact War with the Turians or the Skyllian Blitz or some other past event.

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Whatever it is, rumors that look at hiring choices point to it having a significant co-op element.

Either way, a co-op mass effect game, or just co-op anything would be awesome.

Joystiq's article points out that the gun the guy is using is definitely a ME2 weapon, the Incisor sniper rifle.

As interesting as it would be to do the Skyllian Blitz, if that's what this is, I hope they handle the story in such a way that it doesn't belittle the War Hero background for Shepard (single handedly holding off a breach in the battle lines).

The trusted source appears to be EA sales. Of course this is about the bigges "non secret" secret ever. Everyone knew they were making a third game. It was touted as a trilogy in lots of interviews, press releases, and heck the game itself.

Gold Star to the EA flunkies even if Bioware's probably ticked off. imho, the whole "Guess what our new game is! JUST GUESS! You'll NEVER guess!" is a tiresome marketing gimmick. Between this and Irrational's Bioshock followup and X-COM game marketing gimmicks, it's had its day. I'll pretty much assume from now on when someone resorts to it, it's more continuation of an existing franchise. Which is fine, I just don't see the point of making people guess about it and tickling the imagination that maybe it's something truly new.

I suppose I should go back and try to actually finish Mass Effect 1 some day.

While I'm probably reading *way* too much into that blurb, I have a (for me) bad feeling they are aping ME2's structure way too much:

Spoiler for speculative spoilers based on that description:

I can imagine that instead of recruiting squad members you have to recruit different worlds. So you show up on the homeworld for each race and they each conveniently have a quest for you to do in order for them to agree to help Earth. And the end game will be based on how many worlds that you recruit.

But damn, I am really excited for what's setup in the game. Just seeing the Reapers act openly like that. From ME2 we already know why they've gone for Earth and Human space first, but so many questions as to how they got there, why they aren't attacking elsewhere, and more.

Honestly, while the themes and music in ME1 were kinda rough, they had a weird 80s scifi techno throwback with some modernization that I loved.

ME2 took that initial theme and made it more orchestral and closer to what you might hear in a movie soundtrack. While I also liked that, I think they lost some of that uniqueness in the process. But thankfully they kept some of the major themes, such as the digital xylophone sounding theme that usually accompanies the Mass Effect logo in trailers.

Not sure what they could do for ME3, but I hope they pull back in more ME1 themes. I've bought the soundtracks to both games.

Anyway, all I'm waiting for is the next bit of DLC before I do my final play through in prep for ME3.

I'm about three quarters through my very first play through of the first game, I've been through ME2 twice, but I will be taking my character from this first through the 2nd and setting my self up for the 3rd

There is some indication that there will be some form of inventory back in ME3, and that they're listening to their fans in terms of mixing back in ME1 elements, but the tone and the way he spoke indicated that it's still not going to please people who love tons of inventory and stats. So, ME2 with a smattering of DA2's inventory.

It also sounded like planet scanning isn't going anywhere, at least from the tone of the speaker. However, you also get the impression that it will be changed, here's hoping they add in more interesting things to scan.

Scanning will henceforth be a minigame you play on facebook which ties into ME3 with all sorts of wonderfull things you can do.

No, no! Scanning will be more "aerodynamic", so you no longer have to actually do anything while scanning. Entering a planet's atmosphere means waiting for 5 minutes while the game slooooowly scans the planet for you.